http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Artist creates GMaps traffic jams by walking a cartful of phones around Berlin en Sat, 27 Jun 2026 10:29:50 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20068#post-321960 Mon, 03 Feb 2020 19:02:32 +0000 davecykl 321960@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The stunt amused me for its cleverness, making you think about how systems work, and for its "hack" value, but I don't think it would be a good idea to try to emulate it as part of PoP; it would just annoy people, which is surely not the message we are trying to put out? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20068#post-321955 Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:52:04 +0000 unhurt 321955@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I shared this to @chrisfl on Twitter - so if you see him out and about with a barrow full of phones you'll know why.</p> <p>Someone also said something - I THINK on Twitter - about possibilities to replicate but with just a load of organised people &amp; their phones. I'm thinking like a Google-maps hacking flash-mob. </p> <p>Pop up PoP plan (if we knew it would work?) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20068#post-321954 Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:24:12 +0000 davecykl 321954@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Artful prankster creates Google Maps traffic jams by walking a cartful of old phones around Berlin</p> <p>"A German artist has had a bit of fun with Google Maps after tricking its free satnav service into displaying traffic jams – by walking around with a hand cart full of mobile phones."</p> <p><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/03/google_maps_hack_cartful_phones/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/03/google_maps_hack_cartful_phones/</a></p> <p>As we all know, high powered computing systems are foolproof and incapable of error… </p>